nikitaga

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by nikitaga 12d ago
> > why would they want to default on their debts > So they don't have to share the AI profits with foreigners who hold shares in the AI companies. They can do it now. They don't, because it's not worth it. It won&#x
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by nikitaga 12d ago
That outcome seems unlikely. Both that AI will remain dominated by USA for a few decades, and that they will use newfound profits to eliminate budget deficit. And why would they want to default on their debts in this hypothetical future whe
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by nikitaga 12d ago
It's not going to be a net win for anyone. A country that needs to keep borrowing to stay afloat is not going to improve its position by effectively defaulting on its debt, regardless of the exact method or type of assets involved.
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by nikitaga 5mo ago
> Employee Only: You cannot buy these in stores. They are sold exclusively to ASML employees with a strictly enforced “one per person” rule. Wonder if they include this lego set as a gift with their real machines? Or are they like – our
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by nikitaga 6mo ago
> They are common Any actual evidence of the alleged scope of this problem, or just anecdotes from devs who are mad at AI, blown out of proportion?
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by nikitaga 6mo ago
All this reactionary outrage in the comments is funny. And lame. Yes, for the vast majority of the internet, serving traffic is near zero marginal cost. Not for LLMs though – those requests are orders of magnitude more expensive. This isn&#
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by nikitaga 6mo ago
Scraping static content from a website at near-zero marginal cost to its server, vs scraping an expensive LLM service provided for free, are different things. The former relies on fairly controversial ideas about copyright and fair use to q
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by nikitaga 8mo ago
This is great news, nice win for Scala. It's a great language, I've been working with it for 10 years now. Full stack Scala with Scala.js on the frontend is so very nice. My experience is mostly in fintech & healthcare startup
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by nikitaga 8mo ago
^ This meme is from 10+ years ago when Scala was at the peak of its hype driven by the FP craze. Nobody seriously writes cryptic-symbolic-operator code like that nowadays. Scalaz, the FP library most notorious for cryptic operator/meth
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by nikitaga 8mo ago
My MacOS "100%" does not have any ads. But I don't use Apple watch or Apple online services, so that's the difference I guess. You don't need to buy a Windows Watch to get ads on Windows though. They'll be righ
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by nikitaga 8mo ago
Surely we can distinguish MacOS – the operating system – from the online services provided by Apple that happen to have a native app? If you are choosing to use Apple online services, sure, you'll get upsells I guess, as with any othe
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by nikitaga 8mo ago
I know all about their business models, yet I couldn't care less how much money Facebook gets from ad clicks. Them making a profit is not directly harming me. The things that are harming me are a lot more complicated than that, but p
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by nikitaga 8mo ago
The main reason for populism is that the incumbent governments do a consistently poor job satisfying their constituents' preferences and interests, so people get desperate to find something / someone different that might work bett
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by nikitaga 8mo ago
How is MacOS as enshittified as Windows? It doesn't have ads, doesn't push AI on you, their online services are trivial to ignore once and never think about again, etc. I haven't tried Tahoe, and sure, its new glass UI is shi
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by nikitaga 11mo ago
> stifles disagreement and debate. When I append "reddit" to my google search query, I'm not looking for "disagreement and debate". I'm looking for specific information on non-political topics, such as repai
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by nikitaga 11mo ago
The authenticity of old fashioned forums is often outweighed by their poor UX and in general terrible ergonomics. It's no wonder that so few people want to use them anymore. Reddit's "nested, collapsible comments sorted by up
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by nikitaga 1y ago
> Comparing React to Web components is comparing apples to oranges. I mean, yes, but you're the one making this comparison, saying that WCs lack reactivity etc. Web Components are an extension of the DOM – a low level browser API. T
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by nikitaga 1y ago
> If you don't want that, you gotta bring a wrapper or another reactivity library/framework. Being able to use a different library with a component, instead of the component being tied to React, is the whole point. React isn&#x
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by nikitaga 1y ago
Preferred syntax is whatever looks nicer to you. It's not really two different syntaxes, just one more flexible syntax where if you choose to go full braceless, it ends up looking like python. I personally like the new braceless python
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by nikitaga 1y ago
Scala is very much alive, it's just past the initial hype stage, well into the slope of enlightenment / plateau of productivity depending on which style of Scala one is into. It's now growing slower but based on more sustaina
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by nikitaga 1y ago
The problem with overly abstract concepts is a problem of specific Scala functional programming libraries, and not of the Scala language itself, or of other, simpler Scala libraries (e.g. com-lihaoyi stuff, Play, my own Laminar on the front
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by nikitaga 1y ago
Kotlin's adoption is not that much bigger than Scala, and it's no good to me, as it's heavily concentrated in the Android world, which is irrelevant to me. Among other things, that means that Kotlin.js is not as good as Scala
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by nikitaga 1y ago
Yes, this guy: https://www.youtube.com/@rockthejvm https://rockthejvm.com/ Great videos.
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by nikitaga 1y ago
I've worked both at a startup that used functional programming libraries pretty heavily, and a startup that is using as plain of a Scala as you can imagine (no cats / zios / kyos / etc. in sight), and both benefited grea
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by nikitaga 1y ago
We built full stack web applications: Scala on the JVM on the backend, and Scala.js on the frontend. For the frontend, used React.js (via Scala.js bindings) at one company, and my own Scala.js UI library Laminar at another. Mobile was imple
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by nikitaga 1y ago
I meant FP libraries like Cats Effect / FS2 / ZIO et al. – they don't really do the things that Akka / Pekko is very good at, such as multi-machine parallelism, but the conventional wisdom nowadays seems to be that it&#x
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by nikitaga 1y ago
It became less popular a long time ago as the hype of actors as a programming paradigm died down, and then eventually akka adopted non-OSS BSL license which made many users including us switch to Pekko (a community fork) which is still deve
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by nikitaga 1y ago
Scala has been very enjoyable and productive for me and the teams I've worked on. The first couple years of v2 -> v3 transition were a bit rough as the tooling and ecosystem was catching up, but now we happily use Scala 3 with no lo
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by nikitaga 1y ago
That does not make sense... In November, her visa was revoked at the border, when trying to enter the US. At that point, she was obviously turned around back into Canada. Then later, she was detained when trying to enter the US from Mexico
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by nikitaga 2y ago
Clearly, eh? Spoken like someone who didn't get debilitating whiplash for years from being rear ended on a highway. My friend's vestibular system has been shot for 8 years and counting from that accident, and she still can't

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